Shazia Hafiz Ramji is the author of Port of Being, a finalist for the 2019 BC Book Prizes (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize). Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2019, Poetry Northwest, and Music & Literature. She is at work on a novel drawn from autobiography and family history.

Lauren Francis-Sharma is the author of 'Til the Well Runs Dry. She is the assistant director of Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, owner of DC Writers Room, and a MacDowell Fellow. Her sophomore novel is forthcoming.

Donna Hemans is the author of two novels: River Woman and Tea by the Sea. Her short fiction has appeared in Caribbean Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, and Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad, among others. She is an editor at Pree, a Caribbean online magazine.

Elena Georgiou